1 John 3:7 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁷ Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

²⁰ For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

⁷⁵ And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

³⁵ but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

⁶ For he will pay every man for what he has done. ⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life, ⁸ but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

¹³ For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

¹⁶ Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness? ¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, ¹⁸ and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows. ⁸ The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

¹¹ with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

⁸ But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!

² to whom Abraham apportioned one tenth of all the spoil, who is first, as his name shows, king of righteousness and then king of Salem, which means king of peace—

²² Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.

¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder.

¹ Come now, you rich people! weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are going to overtake you! ² Your wealth has rotted, your clothes are moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted, and their rust will testify against you and eat into your very flesh, for you have stored up fire for the last days.

¹⁵ but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

²⁴ He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

¹ My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

²⁶ I write you this with reference to those who are trying to mislead you.

²⁹ If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.